Comments on: Microstock Photography

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:09:59 +0000

Hi everyone,
ther is a new stock agency and photocommunity in english online: http://www.panthermedia.net.
Its Midstock, not Micro, so sales might be better. It alredy exists in Germany for some years and the community (free of charge) it quite interessting too…

By: Sell Pictures

Sell Pictures — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:47:57 +0000

So it has been a year since this post…have your revenues increased any? It usuallt takes a while to build your offerings, but it can grow fast if you keep working at it.

By: Marinko

Marinko — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:52:05 +0000

Hi. Nice article. Cool idea to describe a nice way for second job.

By: leaf

leaf — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:46:43 +0000

While on the topic of microstock photography.. here is a forum for you all Microstock Group - A meeting place for microstock photographers

By: Jorge

Jorge — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:49:23 +0000

http://www.microstock.es a microstock review/help site in spanish.

Un sitio sobre microstock en español http://www.microstock.es

By: CJPhoto

CJPhoto — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:45:24 +0000

You have some nice shots but you need to increase your portfolio if you are to get enough DL to get a payout.

I have just started microstock and agree that 0.25c per photo is not much (shutterstock has just increased payouts from 0.20c to 0.25 per DL). However, all my photos are just those that I have taken while on holidays so if they can bring in money for my next holiday all the better.

Another up and coming site is http://www.fotolia.co.uk/partner/39857. I recommend you have a look as it is currently the third biggest site(by number of photos) that I know of. there sales are also picking up which is good. Other sites are:

http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=60535
http://www.dreamstime.com/res125558
http://www.fotolia.co.uk/partner/39857
http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php?refnum=Jakich
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=ip416bLuq1
http://www.123rf.com/src_cjphoto
http://www.stockxpert.com/?ref=CJPHoto
http://www.canstockphoto.com?r=16626

By: Peter Galbraith

Peter Galbraith — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:43:10 +0000

I also sell microstock a lot. It took me about 4 months to make my first $500 and now I am to about $500 a month.

I recently started a comparison site to help people find micro stock photo sites. Check it out at http://www.microstockforum.com

Good luck!

By: Anita

Anita — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:43:53 +0000

Hello!

I’ve been selling my images via microstock for last half a year. I’m currently using mainly these three portals – shutterstock, dreamstime and bigstockphoto and my monthly income is around 400 US dollars. Enough to buy extra camera gadgets etc.
Of course for a nice regular income you also have to build yourself a bigger gallery, but you have to start from somewhere :-)

The way i see it – photo prices have always been outrageously overpriced and i have no moral problems making myself money on microstock sites and utilizing my small hobby. I may be rubbish photographer or maybe not, but the fact is that my creation sells and i feel good actually doing something with my photos instead of just keeping them locked on my hard-drive. Professional photographers will always feel that this is cheating and bad behaviour because prices have gone down and they can’t accept it. They are just going to have to understand that market is changing and they’re not going to get back their glory days when only few chosen ones knew how to operate 35mm camera. The digital photography age actually embraces amateur photography and the process will continue.

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In case you’re interested – here are the links to these portals where i sell (with my referal codes in the end)

http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=3525

http://www.dreamstime.com/res20742

http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=6djkZEOYu9

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Cheers, Anita